kevin_b_er

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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
One consequence is unbalanced justice. In the case of mandatory binding arbitration, as a citizen you will be denied public access to prior cases. The monkey court that is arbitration does not require the arbiter to be impartial, the arbit
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
Sounds like a regression on Canonical's issue #1. The resolution case was "A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software.". This article does indeed appear to showcase active work toward a regression on b
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
France has declared the absolute right to artificially censor google globally? Dandy. Next China will ask the same thing globally of other results. How can you do anything on the internet if you must follow all laws everywhere at the same
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
While this contract is currently viewed as unenforceable, it is only enforceable by old conventions I think. We've already seen that it is possible to lose basic inalienable rights by signing a contract you did not read, so why not th
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
Even if we ignore the ZFS license itself, the SF Conservancy appears to be arguing that _all_ proprietary kernel modules are GPL violations.
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
In summary, they found out that in spite of EMET protecting a wide variety of functions, EMET has a function and a global variable that turns off EMET. So they can call it or set the variable and EMET is bypassed. Why bother with all the f
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
However, the US Government is known to have gathered hidden evidence in drug cases, then used parallel construction to hide the violation. So, now the government's presentation of evidence should always be considered in question. As i
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
All supposed "rights" are ones that restrict the behavior of government. It does not restrict the behavior of a private corporation. Once you privatize something, the protection of god given rights no longer applies. When everyth
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
"Philips Hue is based on ZigBee LightLink, a low-power, safe, and reliable technology to control your lights. New features and improvements are continuously added to the system to make it even more useful. Software and firmware updates
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
If you won, it was $153 million dollars in today's money. That's more than enough money to feed all those mouths.
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
The telling quote from the entire article on how the antibacterial of last resort is now ineffective: "The bulk of the 12,000 tonnes of colistin fed to livestock yearly around the world is used in China, say Liu and colleagues, which w
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
I figure thinness is secondary. The headphone jack is not controlled by Apple and Apple demands control. It now owns a headphone manufacturer that manufactures devices at very high markups, so why would it continue to permit competition on
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
Volkswagon could sue for their expected future profits. A private arbitration court where the judges are corporate lawyers will decide if the court of a sovereign nation is somehow inhibiting VW's future possible profit. The health and
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
It isn't your computer anymore. The device no longer trusts YOU and will not obey you. It obeys its owners: The corporation that made it. Therefor your point is moot. It isn't your device, so you aren't throwing out anythi
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
The airplane is a terrible counterexample. The pilot does not need pretty animations, because the interface's actions are part of a de rigueur to the job. The pretties on a random app need animations, however, to help the user. The
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
Comcast is immune to class action as decided by AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion. You may never sue them in a court of law in the US.
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
How is the Apple Music DRMing of your own music not randomware? "We encrypted your files. We won't ever give your real files back. Pay us or you can't use them anymore."
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by kevin_b_er 11y ago
Alternate useful title: Chromium is open source again. The source code was not previously available. The portion that listened to the microphone for a phrase was closed source while the rest was open source.
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by kevin_b_er 12y ago
You mistake the point of SGX. The point of is a reincarnation of treacherous computing. Intel SGX requires remote attestation. This means that YOU, the owner of the device, is not trusted. To have 3rd party keys would mean they would ha
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by kevin_b_er 12y ago
That point of remote attestation. If you have the hardware module signs all software and the processor, coupled with an unblockable secure mode that only runs if the TPM authorizes it, then you have created a secure zone in the processor o
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by kevin_b_er 12y ago
TPM and Remote Attestation. This is an article on Microsoft working hard on DRM schemes. > An Ironclad App enables a user to securely transmit her data to a remote machine with the guarantee that ev-ery instruction executed on that mach